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Your Donation Helps Provide Nutritious Meals

An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but for the homeless and food insecure of Fort Smith, that daily apple may be hard to come by. In 2009, The Sack Lunch Program, which serves 11 meals a week, tried to upgrade the nutritional value of its lunches by replacing prepackaged pudding with a piece of fresh fruit. However, faced with the rising cost of fruit and a need for increased distribution, the program had to scale back. Now just 70 percent of the portable meals served through the North Sixth Street window have fruit.

If you’d like to help the program with its mission to serve nutritious and portable meals to all those who ask, you can make a contribution to the Community Christmas Card. A donation of as little as $2 per name — more is gratefully accepted — makes you a part of our Christmas Eve tradition, while ensuring The Sack Lunch Program is able to meet its goals.

To participated in the Community Christmas Card, you may:

• Send your name and at least $2 per name to the Times Record Christmas Card, P.O. Box 272, Fort Smith, AR 72902. All names should be received in by Dec. 20.

• Bring your name and cash, check, credit or debit card to the cashier on the first floor of the Times Record building at 3600 Wheeler Ave.

• Call 784-0464 to pay by debit or credit card.

• Drop your cash or check at the Press Argus-Courier offices at 100 N. 11th St. in Van Buren by noon Dec. 19.

Please make checks payable to The Sack Lunch Program. Donations are sent to The Sack Lunch Program daily; so far readers have contributed $11,332.